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Coney Island: 1905
... affected. - Dave] Couney on Coney "Growing Up On Long Island" is being presented at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook until the fall. Included is the story of Dr. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/03/2012 - 3:03pm -

Coney Island: 1905

Deer Island Light: 1906
... went to Deer Island, but at least one colony was sent to Long Island. "During the winter of 1675-76 some 500 American Indians were ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/24/2011 - 8:07am -

Deer Island Light: 1906

Our Lady of Lourdes: 1914
... the Drive for a few years until 1956, then it was off to Long Island to raise our six children. In friendship and love hearing from ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 12/13/2022 - 12:33pm -

Our Lady of Lourdes: 1914

Long Island Luxe: 1952
... residence at Lattingtown Harbor Estates, Locust Valley, Long Island, New York." Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size. Not ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/17/2013 - 10:42am -

Long Island Luxe: 1952

Beach Policeman: 1922
... 1963 This very thing happened to me in high school on Long Island!! I think I know what job I want when I grow up The boys may ... 
 
Posted by Ken - 08/31/2022 - 12:51am -

Beach Policeman: 1922

No Left Turn: 1948
... 20, 1948. "E.R. Squibb & Son, Northern Boulevard, Long Island City, New York. Harold Burson, client." Note the abundance of ... Yard was the largest coach yard in the world. Also In Long Island City The Van Iderstine Rendering Company, founded in 1855 and at ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/30/2013 - 12:18pm -

No Left Turn: 1948

Island Rockers: 1904
... retreat that didn't require a great deal of travel. The Long Island Rail Road's Greenport terminal was, and is, adjacent to one of the ... with two n's. Manhasset is a town at the other end of Long Island. - Dave] Error corrected. Both spellings are variants of the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/03/2014 - 3:13pm -

Island Rockers: 1904

Chrysler Building: 1932
... a comment on the recent string of NYC photos. I grew up on Long Island and could see lower Manhattan from my school's playground. I always ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/31/2012 - 2:52pm -

Chrysler Building: 1932

Over the River: 1909
... tower. The masonry pier of the third tower marks the Long Island City shoreline. In front of it is the Blackwell's Island warden's ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 6:57pm -

Over the River: 1909

Flats Fixed: 1937
... Who can locate the intersection? View full size. Long Island If this is NY State Route 25, and based on the design of the ... well be, then somewhere along the rolling North Shore of Long Island -- Manhasset, perhaps? The flowers for sale often indicate a ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/08/2013 - 11:50am -

Flats Fixed: 1937

Candlelight Inn: 1951
... "Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Inn restaurant. Manhasset, Long Island, New York. Garden Room." This was one of several Candlelight Inns ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/09/2023 - 12:14pm -

Candlelight Inn: 1951

Phipps Garden: 1940
... May 17, 1940. "Phipps Garden Apartments, 5101 39th Avenue, Long Island City, New York. Clarence S. Stein, architect." Hanging with a big ... photo's caption notwithstanding, Phipps Garden is not in Long Island City. As the name of its neighbor Sunnyside Gardens suggests, it's ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/10/2014 - 10:04am -

Phipps Garden: 1940

Schwinners: 1970
... did not use front plates. Given the view, we can rule out Long Island, but this scene would fit almost anywhere else in the state. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/29/2022 - 4:27pm -

Schwinners: 1970

Out for a Spin: 1904
... and Patchogue Avenue are in two very different parts of Long Island. And Shelter Island sits even farther away, out between the forks at the far eastern end of Long Island. The car I found a photo of another example of the car, in a ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/23/2019 - 12:06pm -

Out for a Spin: 1904

Chez Chintz: 1942
... May 12, 1942. "William S. Paley, residence in Manhasset, Long Island, New York. Living room, to large window." Large-format acetate ... this room and the rest of the house is at a blog on Old Long Island . Wow factor for all the wrong reasons Were the terms 'over ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/09/2021 - 6:13pm -

Chez Chintz: 1942

Ginger Ale Alley: 1906
... to New York, where it ran primarily on the East River and Long Island Sound. It lasted until broken up at State Island in 1935. I ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/03/2022 - 7:26pm -

Ginger Ale Alley: 1906

Dynaflow Diplomacy: 1949
... headquarters at the Sperry Gyroscope industrial park on Long Island, along with its fleet of black Buick Super sedans. 35mm Kodachrome ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/28/2022 - 9:41pm -

Dynaflow Diplomacy: 1949

3 Long: 1904
Circa 1904. "Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y." On July 29, 1907, this "Riviera of the East" burned to the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/12/2018 - 12:11pm -

3 Long: 1904

Century Road Club: 1913
... Run from Columbus Circle in Manhattan to Hicksville, Long Island and back. The race, sponsored by the Century Road Club [bicycle] ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/13/2013 - 3:25pm -

Century Road Club: 1913

Mass Transit: 1910
... breezy. Then and Now The tracks are gone and the Long Island RR Building in the back was transformed into a mall. The small ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 12/14/2020 - 1:25pm -

Mass Transit: 1910

First Across: 1919
... flying boat, designed by Glenn Curtiss, at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, New York. The NC-4 was the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/10/2019 - 2:19pm -

First Across: 1919

D-Day: New York
... sold exclusively through James Waters Chrysler Agency in Long Island City, Queens. The price for a new one was about $1100. I once ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/06/2013 - 10:25am -

D-Day: New York

Forest Brook: 1956
... 8, 1956. "Forest Brook Elementary School, Hauppauge, Long Island. Classroom and teacher." For those of a certain demographic, this ... Ol' '56 I was in third grade in Hempstead, Long Island then. Ike was president and the world 'champeen' Brooklyn Dodgers ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/14/2013 - 7:14am -

Forest Brook: 1956

Ledkote: 1956
... 1956. "Ledkote Products Co., Vernon Boulevard, Astoria, Long Island. Office accounting department. Corydon M. Johnson Co., client." ... to Port Jefferson Station, about 50 miles to the east on Long Island. In 1959 the company changed its name to Lawrence Aviation ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/22/2014 - 2:34pm -

Ledkote: 1956

Sausalito: 1958
... to the P1800 of 1962. And a Volvo dealer, Volvoville on Long Island, NY, later converted a few P1800 coupes into convertibles, but ... 
 
Posted by Rute Boye - 07/25/2012 - 8:30pm -

Sausalito: 1958

Hanks House: 1957
... 11, 1957. "Stedman Hanks, residence in Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y. Axis view. Harrie Thomas Lindeberg, architect." Acetate ... 1906 to 1914. They designed several large homes on Long Island. These homes reflect a general movement away from grandeur and ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/13/2021 - 3:12pm -

Hanks House: 1957

Manhasset 346: 1942
... May 12, 1942. "William S. Paley, residence in Manhasset, Long Island, New York. Library, telephone table." 5x7 acetate negative by ... the Wikipedia pic of him to this comment. And a bit of Long Island anti-Semitism history from Wikipedia: "Paley married divorcée, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/11/2021 - 3:52pm -

Manhasset 346: 1942

Seeing New York: 1904
... buses” were made by the Vehicle Equipment Company of Long Island City, New York. Their literature called them “A combination of ... Lloyd and Lucius T. Gibbs. By 1903 they had relocated to Long Island City. Up until mid-1906 they built a large number of commercial ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/24/2012 - 9:51pm -

Seeing New York: 1904

Portrait of a Prodigy: 1933
... 10, whose mother is a church organist in Queens Village, Long Island, and whose father, Clemmett Birdsong Perkins, is Eastern Passenger ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/28/2012 - 3:11pm -

Portrait of a Prodigy: 1933

Caumsett Manor: 1933
October 12, 1933. Huntington, Long Island. "Marshall Field estate at Lloyd Neck. Interior view of polo ... and Caumsett is no exception). Most of the North Shore Long Island great estates have been carved up or are in private hands -- this ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/31/2012 - 9:02pm -

Caumsett Manor: 1933
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